Be Excellent To Each Other

Keighley is a fucking shithole. I think haworth is far enough away, though.

Move to London.

I'm too old for London.

If you're too old for London, you're too old for life.

*nods*

Or you're Murtaugh.

They need me up here. I am the pilot steering the barge that is West Yorkshire into the seas of plenty. I am the sentry keeping them safe from harm during the dark hours and shining a beacon to illuminate the path before them to the meadows of hope.

I've never been to London and have no desire to go.

Fool. London is awesome. I wish I had gone there at 21, instead of to Oxford.

Why should I when all the best people come to Derby every year!

/saving throw

I hate cities. I'm really more of village sort of guy.

New York is ace though. I'd like to live there.

Oxford gives you the fun of paying London prices without having to live in the metropolis. And it's all the greatest city on earth too.

New York? I think I prefer DC or Boston.

Are we doing it this year? I hope so.

London's not a city. It's a load of villages that are just a really short walk apart and have great public transport.

A load of villages where you pay £5 for a pint of Fosters.

You pay the extra for the hot birds that are in London. it is why beer is cheaper up norf.

Tut, tut, sir. I'm married!

The friendly village locals on the great public transport:

Hoho. my cousin is on her way from Keswick to Mile End for a university interview. that'll be an eye opener for her.

Of course we are.

Now I've got that ace Pulp song going through my head. It's Miiiii-le End.

NY is just London++ with (slightly) more armed police and fewer CCTV cameras

Malc

Does it have the music quiz? No? Then I submit, good sir, that your statement is twaddle of the highest order.

Did the music quiz exist in 1995? (fuck was it really nearly 18 years ago that I went?!) No? then the statement stands!

Malc

I said twaddle, Sir.

Good day.

I think I liked Boston the best. Iowa City was pretty cool, but a bit too young for me now. Also, in Iowa. SanFran was foggy and cold. Chicago was good.

I'd care more about the music quiz if I could actually make it up once, ever! As I can't then I don't really care about it.

But if will rest your mind, then:

New York is London++ with (slightly) more armed police, fewer CCTV cameras and fewer music quiz!

Malc

US cities I have visited (stayed in for more than 10 hours)

LA > SF > NY >> Denver > Salt Lake City >> Helena

(St Louis was nicer that SLC and Helena, but I only stayed there for 2 hours)

Malc

Whenever I'm in a foreign city, I find it easier to understand their underground systems by mentally referring to the lines based on the London Underground colours. So a green line will ALWAYS be 'District' in my head, yellow 'Circle' etc etc. Makes sense to me, but travel buddies tend to look at me oddly when I suggest taking the Bakerloo to the Komsomolskaya station, for example.

Oh, I visited NY, LA, SF and St Louis in '95, whilst the others in '88 but I don't think the difference is the difference between beign 13/20)

Malc

Why, look, it is a KINDLE EDITION of the book that

Quote:

demonstrates an incredibly intricate understanding of modern Britain and the working class and combines it with tragedy, wit and grit

.

I thought you were talking about this:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Stig-Puffin-Modern-Classics-ebook/dp/B003TSDNCC/

Excellent.

Las Vegas > San Diego > Los Angeles > San Francisco > Madison, WI > Houston > Lake Havasu City

Though LA sucks if you don't know anyone there or where is cool to go.

I've always wanted to see the Los Angeles underground.

I stayed in a hostel 1 block back from Venice beach, 1 of the other guests was the bouncer of a local club. I was in LA for 7 weeks, pretty much everynight was a party or a beach party, with occasional trips to the afore mentioned club. We went to a club on Hollywood Boulevard once too.

It was awesome!

Malc

New York > Miami (airport)

I like to think it was our influence that got him to release it on Kindle. Was it?
I'm not buying it though, because £9.35.

Worst flight itinerary ever.

GAAAH. Going to be in the office until latez again. Still, on the plus side, at the end of this week I'll finally be done with this particular contract (the biggest the company has ever done). On the downside my boss has threatened me with having to answer questions from the board in the board meeting on Friday. Gnk.

If you think your job is bad, I've just heard one of my colleagues say "I love Danny Dyer. He's great he is!" and they were being serious!

Oh, don't get me wrong, my job's awesome. I'm just tired and ill and this busyness couldn't have come at a worse time.

Still, the bonus is hitting my account tomorrow (which my boss upped from what I was contractually entitled to due to my awesomeitude) so I'm getting some fine fizzy on Friday and taking Craster/Tff style photos with Ruth.

Viewings booked, hopefully.

I have interviews on Wednesday at 11am. Crikey. Feel a bit sick now.

You'll be ace, sparkles.

I'm just gonna do the full on over enthusiastic, but mature, Ange show and hope for the best.

Good plan.

Someone at work tried to explain my position to me today, but it made no sense so I think I'm just going to run with it.

Viewings booked for two places in Haworth, so that should be interesting. it is about 20 minutes normal traffic drive to mrsA's work and about that for me, so we'd have to get another car* but it has a station served exclusively by steam trains so fuck yeah! Hopefully MrsA will like it and then we needn't have to look at any others.


*or use my motorbike

Do you have dates yet? I booked some in October off, but it'd be good to make sure because our team lost a member yesterday and holiday days are hard to squeeze around

No, but I have some figs.